Top Gear's Hammond comes to rescue of another high-speed crash victim

Wheely lucky: Hammond and his wife Mindy helped cyclist Adam Gellatly, 19, when he smashed into a tree at 35mph

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond rushed to the aid of a teenager who suffered his own "spectacular" high-speed crash, it's emerged.

Hammond and his wife Mindy helped cyclist Adam Gellatly, 19, when he smashed into a tree at 35mph and was thrown onto the road outside the couple's home in Redmarley, Gloucestershire, last week.

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The 36-year-old, who was left fighting for his life after crashing a jet powered car at 288mph, brought out a pillow and blankets to keep the cyclist warm until an ambulance arrived.

He then gave the teenager his phone number and told him to ring them when he needed a lift home from the hospital.

The occupational health worker, who cycles 50 miles-a-day to and from work, was dazzled by headlights from on oncoming car on a country road and lost control of his bike.

He said: "I couldn't see where I was going and I hit a tree which had fallen across the road. It was quite a spectacular fall. A woman got out of car to help me and went to Richard's house.

"He and his wife came down with blankets and a pillow for me while I waited for an ambulance. It was all a bit surreal. His wife came to collect me at hospital about four hours later because my parents were away."

The teenager was given four stitches to a gash to his elbow and also suffered bruising in the collision.

Hammond, who was nicknamed Hamster by his co-presenters on the BBC show, has been spotted out cycling near his home as he continues his remarkable recovery.

He suffered brain injuries when he crashed a Vampire car at Elvington airfield, York, in September, as he attempted to break the British land speed record.

But the father-of-two is on course to make a full recovery after leaving hospital just five weeks after the high speed crash, which was being filmed for the programme.

Mr Gellatly, whose cycling helmet snapped in half in the collision, said he thought the celebrity felt for him after his own recent experiences.

"He said after his own accident he hated seeing someone lying in the road and he seemed to definitely relate to me, although my crash was obviously a lot less serious and unfortunately no-one was filming it."

Hammond later wrote about his encounter with Adam in his column in the Daily Mirror, in which he blasted motorists for their "selfish" attitude towards cyclists.

"I felt much aggrieved on his part and found myself siding with the cyclist against the lunatic motorists wallowing in their air-conditioned luxury, while brave cyclists battled through the elements and tried to avoid getting felled by stray trees," he wrote.

Mr Gellatly cycles 250 miles a week as part of a rigorous fitness programme to help him ski at international level.

The teenager was part of the English Alpine Team until last year and hopes to represent Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics.